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Happy Friday!

More former ACORN workers are coming forward and talking about the fact that they still haven’t been paid for their labor. If you ask me, this is no way to treat the men and women who worked so hard to promote Proposition B and Claire McCaskill.

Once again, Antonio French at PubDef leads the way in reporting this issue. It’s high time that Missouri’s mainstream media sources give him the credit he deserves.

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– Good for Spence. Spence’s move means he gets a $25,000 pay raise to go issue press releases about feel-good things like tax credits for orphans and the disabled. In a year or so, if he chooses to do so, he’ll be able to move to the private sector and make a lot more money than he’s made so far. Good for him.

– Good for them. I hate to repeat myself, but seriously: why are these people allowed anywhere near a ballot box?

– Good for us. One less excuse for us to roll our eyes at on the morning of Nov. 8.

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First and foremost, congratulations to Dave Drebes of the Arch City Chronicle, whose newspaper celebrated its five-year anniversary last week.

Congratulations to PubDef, who celebrated his one-year anniversary this week.

If you have any interest in campaigns outside of Missouri, you’ll want to bookmark National Journal’s Hotline TV. In addition to the weekly show on Friday, The Hotline produces a daily webisode highlighting the day’s most important headlines.

Jeff Roe’s The Source produced several unique posts this week. The website linked to photos of an order of protection filed against “Josh” of Claire McCaskill ad fame. Roe also compared Susan Montee to Nick Nolte, and credited himself for making “perhaps the most interesting observation of all about Sunday’s debate” — that Claire McCaskill looked younger, which The Source suggests is due to botox injections.

Roy Temple was the first to hint that Spence Jackson was leaving the governor’s office. Jo Mannies posted something along the same lines on the Political Fix blog late Sunday night.

Unless you have a drinking problem, you probably didn’t watch the first Talent vs. McCaskill debate. Tony has an explanation.

Luckily for those of us who didn’t watch the Springfield debate, Paul Seale live-blogged it. KY3 has the video, and the KY3 Political Notebook has discussion of the debate.

And if political blogs don’t take up enough of your time while you’re “working”, now’s a great time of year to visit Viva El Birdos (which I found via Deadspin.)

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